O Distinct | |
Lady of my unkempt adoration | |
if i have made | |
a fragile certain | |
5 |
song under the window of your soul |
it is not like any songs | |
(the singers the others | |
they have been faithful | |
to many things and which | |
10 |
die |
i have been sometimes true | |
to Nothing and which lives | |
they were fond of the handsome | |
moon never spoke ill of the | |
15 |
pretty stars and to |
the serene the complicated | |
and the obvious | |
they were faithful | |
and which i despise, | |
20 |
frankly |
admitting i have been true | |
only to the noise of worms, | |
in the eligible day | |
under the unaccountable sun) | |
25 |
Distinct Lady |
swiftly take | |
my fragile certain song | |
that we may watch together | |
how behind the doomed | |
30 |
exact smile of life's |
placid obscure palpable | |
carnival where to a normal | |
melody of probable violins dance | |
the square virtues and the oblong sins | |
35 |
perfectly |
gesticulate the accurate | |
strenuous lips of incorruptible | |
Nothing under the ample | |
sun, under the insufficient | |
40 |
day under the noise of worms |
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